Mark Dagley and assistant 2018
Before there was art:
Growing up, I liked collecting rocks and fossils, breeding tropical fish and playing classical guitar. I began painting seriously as a teenager and my goal was to become a professional artist.
Mentor:
I had an instructor in high school named Raymond Wilkins who was a fine oil painter...
Colorists and Mannerists:
Color has always been a primary interest of mine and the Venetian colorists...
Schooled by color:
Having grown up in Washington D.C. when I did...
A certain type of magic:
Painters are probably the most vexed by their own work...
Qualities musical and otherwise:
Since I am also a musician, I tend to use elements and techniques of composition...
The 10,000 Dot Rule:
Each series of work contains a motif. Sometime that motif may be the shape of the canvas...
Visual architecture:
I like to create design elements which initiate a composition. My work is a type of visual...
Seeing things not as they are:
A small child once referred to a three-stepped floor sculpture with a high gloss surface as...